Conversations with Angela Breidbach
William Kentridge in conversation with Shaun de Waal at the Launch on 20 July, 18h00 for 18h30
at the Goethe Institute, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood
Shaun de Waal, senior film critic and writer at the Mail and Guardian, will interview William Kentridge at the launch of William Kentridge: Thinking Aloud, Conversations with Angela Breidbach.
The book will be on sale at a special launch price of R250 and Kentridge will be available to sign copies of the book…
See: http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/dkp/category/latest/news/ and http://www.goethe.de/ins/za/joh/ver/enindex.htm
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“The last few weeks in the studio were spent developing and editioning a new body of work with Sean Slemon. When Sean said he would be coming home for a short visit after completing his first year of his Masters Degree at the Pratt Institute in New York, we immediately set up time for him to work at DKW.
Using hardground and a variety of etching needles and Bic pens and mixing the process with traditional aquatint and open bite, Sean began work on thirteen soft and subtle etching plates. As each image developed, tiny scratches on the plates played havoc with the printers and the artist but in the end intense burnishing of the plates solved the problem; and although we were working to a tight deadline to make the date for an exhibition in the gallery, Sean managed to complete all the works and to convey to the viewer a sense of simple beauty.
Sean is primarily a sculptor but has recently taken on the methods of traditional printmaking to enhance and develop many of his sculptural ideas. I began collaborating with him in 2005 when he was working on two solo exhibitions for the Premises in Johannesburg. For each exhibition Sean developed site-specific installations and he used etchings to support and complement his sculptures. This newest project completed worked in much the same fashion.
Eight of the new works deal with an installation Sean is working on in New York that involves dead Manhattan street trees. Each tree is being cut down and then in half for the installation in an indoor space. The images of trees Sean used on the etching plates refer to these Manhattan street trees but derive from sketches of trees he drew on Jan Smuts Avenue just outside the studio. The trees are specific to the gallery’s neighbourhood and to the city, and the images lead the viewer to imagine how each tree would be cut for the New York installation.
The second series of prints relates to his newest body of work and to the installation Sean created for the show at our gallery. The work follows the beams of light that come through a window and hit the floor at various angles. The installation makes reference to an existing series of windows found in a Johannesburg home and one of the etchings shows how the light enters the window and door of the David Krut Arts Resource Gallery at 15:45. The other three works of the series deal with elements of the window and the light it allows through.” -Jill Ross
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Opens Saturday 8 July at 12h00
This exhibition of prints produced and published at David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) in 2006 follows on from last year’s National Arts Festival show of DKW work, 25 Years of Prints and Multiples. It includes works by David Koloane, Mary Wafer, Deborah Bell, Colbert Mashile, Alastair Whitton, Bronwen Findlay, Nelson Makamo, José Ferreira, Johan Engels, Nathaniel Stern, Trasi Henen and Sean Slemon.
David Krut Print Workshop: New Work 2006 on view until 29 July
Gallery Hours 09h00-17h00, Sat 09h00-16h00
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